1936 in literature

See also: 1935 in literature, other events of 1936, 1937 in literature, list of years in literature.

Deaths

• January 18 - Rudyard Kipling, British writer - Nobel prize for literature (1907)
• March 16 - Marguerite Durand, journalist
• April 30 - A. E. Housman, poet
• June 11 - Robert E. Howard, American fantasy writer (suicide)
• June 12 - M. R. James, writer of ghost stories
• June 14 - G. K. Chesterton, author
• June 14 - Maxim Gorky, dramatist
• August 19 - Federico García Lorca, dramatist and poet
• November 12 - Stefan Grabinski, "the Polish Poe"
• December 10 - Luigi Pirandello, dramatist and novelist
• December 28 - John Cornford, Communist poet
• Grazia Deledda, Sardinian (Italy) writer - Nobel prize for literature (1926)